WASHINGTON (AP)  Bypassing Congress, President Barack Obama intends to order changes in overtime rules so employers would be required to pay millions more workers for the extra time they put in on the job.

The rules, which would not likely take effect until 2015, are aimed at workers currently designated as supervisory employees but who are exempt from overtime because they get paid a salary of more than $455 a week. Obama plans to order his Labor Department to recommend regulations that would increase that salary threshold and change the definition of what constitutes a supervisor.

Obama's attention to overtime dovetails with his emphasis on correcting wage disparities, a theme that he has said will be central to the remainder of his presidential term. It also serves his political ends during a midterm election year, giving him a populist issue along with his calls for a higher minimum wage and better pay for women.

I don’t know if Congress does ‘town halls’ anymore, but we must be asking both democrats and Republicans running for office what perks they are running for since it is clear the president is rapidly making their offices unnecessary.

And if they don’t like the dictatorial actions what they intend to do about them if elected.

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posted on 03/12/2014 4:48:00 PM PDT
by LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)

I’m salaried, and this seems like a ridiculous idea...The era of salaried workers will be over, and businesses will just move to an hourly scale for everyone.

And with it will come timestamps, hourly work tracking, and efficiency studies. Fewer workers will be hired, and employees will be expected to cram more work into non-overtime.

I get paid fairly for every hour I work. There are many weeks I put in 100+ hours, and there are (every once in a while) a week where I put in 35. The moment I feel taken advantage of, it’s incumbent upon me to have the certification and marketability to move to a different employer.

This amounts to a revenue grab by the Fed...Pay your employees more of those taxable dollars or else!

Stay out of my life, government. I don’t want you in my personal life, and I certainly don’t want you in my professional life.

I was an exempt employee most of my life and never worried about working extra hours because my employers gave me comp time which came in handy when I needed to handle personal errands on business days.

I put several years in with insane workloads and hours on salary. Loved it. I got paid extremely well.

Govt has no business getting in between boss and worker. My commment was just pointing out that people wanted ‘lesser evil’ in voting for squish RINOs (inference to the Bhoner pic) that refuse to rein Zero in with crap like this and got what they asked for.

Good I don’t know why republicans just don’t simply explain that sure lets increase the minimum wage hey why stop at $10.00 lets shoot for $20.00 or $30.00 per hour but for all you people that are going to lose your job over this you must ensure that you put the blame for your job loss squarely where it belongs on the President.

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posted on 03/12/2014 5:14:35 PM PDT
by Typical_Whitey
(The fundamental transformation resistance is futile you will be assimilated.)

A “salaried job” has a distinct definition. For one thing they don’t punch a clock. For another, in many cases their lunch is “paid” if you go by an 8 hr day (i.e. 9-5 with an hour lunch is only 7 hrs).

But with this crowd words are just things to be manipulated.

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posted on 03/12/2014 5:22:56 PM PDT
by logic101.net
(How many more children must die on the altar of "gun free zones"?)

Worse Productivity will fall through the floor exempt people won't give a crap anymore, and the caveat of this won't apply to Exec's? Well then many business will make everyone an "Exec"! Just like working for a Bank All Title and no Pay!

I can't believe how this guy is Fubaring everything and blurring lines and disrupting all order. Then again, he learned this all from Cloward, Piven, Alinsky, Wright and Frank Marshall Davis...

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posted on 03/12/2014 6:29:06 PM PDT
by taildragger
(The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)

.The era of salaried workers will be over, and businesses will just move to an hourly scale for everyone.

Speaking as an hourly man who refuses to do salary and the headache it comes with, I can't necessarily say I'd be sad about it. I just don't want it to come about the Obummer's way.

And with it will come timestamps, hourly work tracking, and efficiency studies. Fewer workers will be hired, and employees will be expected to cram more work into non-overtime.

Well, you can only cram so much. I tell my bosses that when they try. And then I ask "Are you going to authorize overtime?" They usually say no. "Then I'm going home at the end of my shift." Then I get the threats about replacement. "Do you really think you're going to find someone who will do more work an hour at the wage you're paying?" Dead silence. Replacement never happens. Then crunch time hits because they didn't authorize enough overtime early in the project and I make out like a bandit billing my 2x on the unlimited overtime. I tell 'em it would be less costly just to authorize so much overtime a week, but execs never listen. Or they fire and hire and wonder why they never make the productivity quotas.

Stay out of my life, government. I dont want you in my personal life, and I certainly dont want you in my professional life.

Too late, friend! Government is already all over professional life, what with taxes and regulations and so on. And my experience is that most corporations love it, being hand-in-glove with government.

Having worked salary exempt many years, there were good and bad things about overtime. When O-T meant comp time, it was great. No extra taxable earnings, and it made for a few 3 day weekends. When the company changed that policy, the new policy stated that O-T was only paid out for the hours worked after putting in 45 hours, i.e., hours 41-45 were unpaid. For the strivers, that seemed like an incentive to impress the bosses. I refused to do it, never again worked past 40 hours, got my work done, enjoyed my family during my time off. Those co-workers who elected to work over 40 hours had less time with family, and the company didn’t care one way or another that they appeared so “dedicated.” I worked with the principle expressed by my chief executive years back: “You are expected to fulfill a 40 hour work week, and if you can’t get your job done in 40 hours, you’re inefficient.” Worked for me! Now, as for 0bama’s tampering with O-T, hasn’t he done enough damage to this country? Interfering with corporate policies can only turn out badly.

Obama is grasping at straws trying to “improve” the economy. He is looking for something that he can say he did that actually put more money in peoples pockets. (Never mind that something like this would reduce the workforce or reduce other compensation). He is desperate.

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posted on 03/12/2014 7:21:57 PM PDT
by MRadtke
(Light a candle or curse the darkness?)

I worked for years as a salaried proposal coordinator for a major defense contractor. All our proposals required extensive overtime. We sometimes worked all night on a weekend and into Sunday morning. And we got paid overtime every time. Not time-and-one-half but straight time and a premium. The company paid it because it had to to keep the salaried employees in our department.

I agree but there will come a time if limits are not placed where every employer will feel like they can put you to work for 100+ hours without concern and without empathy for you family, and what will you do then?

Some of us actually want to work without having to worry about whether we will ever spend time with our families are not. I’m sure you work 100+ hours with great concern for your family, however, I enjoy my 40-45 hours of work and while I don’t provide for my family like I would want to, I do enjoy the many hours I get to spend with them.

I know that many employers don’t care about that, and if we were all salary they wouldn’t give a damn no matter how much we make how much time we spend with them.

My boss cares about my hours but when you get further away from human contact the less you care about people. My bosses boss could care less how many hours we work or how late we work them because they aren’t in touch. Should government decided that? I would like to say no, however, my bosses scare me more, call me liberal if you want, but quite frankly if you look around, even our good Christians don’t really care about fellow man anymore.

Any time I see something like this coming from comrade obama I have to remind myself that however beneficial it may at first appear on the surface for the average employee, he’s only doing it because it means increased tax revenue for the Fed. Somebody has to pay for all those IRS salaries and executive office vacations.

1) Many of those workers falling into this category will LOST THEIR JOBS.

2) Many of those remaining workers will HAVE THEIR HOURS CUT in order to eliminate the overtime pay requirements.

Your points are so true. Obama is a domestic enemy. He wants to destroy the private sector. All part of the destroy America and grow government plan. Cloward-Piven and all. When are Americans going to wake up? We took an oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I hope the voter turnout in November is a tsunami. Remember in November! Remember this and thousands of other things. . . Something every day.

At this rate, will there be any votes for a democrat on November 4th?

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posted on 03/12/2014 9:59:51 PM PDT
by Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)

Interesting that a black “reporter” fired from Politico who was “forced” to work in retail, writes a column about people not being paid overtime then Obama uses his executive authority to do something about it. Whatever he can do.

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